Zelian Ashbury Free-Shaw, 31, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of November 3, 2024, in the parking lot of the Circle K at 1300 West Colfax Avenue in Denver. The shooting happened about 2:30 a.m. after a dispute in the lot. Surveillance footage showed a man and a woman arguing, and Shaw appears to have a verbal interaction with the male suspect that police described as an argument that escalated into gunfire.

The Denver Police Department’s investigation identified a suspect. Forty-year-old Deangelo Luarks was arrested after being taken into custody in another city on a parole violation warrant; further inquiries linked him to Shaw’s death and he was charged with first-degree murder. Friends and family remember Shaw as someone who loved working on anything with a motor and who found peace and joy in the mountains.

Does anyone have information about that Circle K parking lot dispute or saw activity in the area that night?